Photos| Indonesian rescue teams find the wreckage of a missing plane in a mountainous area

Indonesian rescue teams today recovered the wreckage of a missing plane believed to have crashed the previous day with 11 people on board as it approached A mountainous area on the island of Sulawesi during cloudy weather.

The turboprop aircraft was a "ATR 500-42" Enroute from Yogyakarta on the main island of Java bIndonesiato Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, when it disappeared from radar screens on Saturday shortly after receiving instructions from air traffic control to correct its approach path.

The plane, operated by the company "IndonesiaAir Transport"was last seen at 17:01 pm in the Liangliang district of Maros, a mountainous area in South Sulawesi province, with eight crew members and three passengers on board from the Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries who were participating in a maritime air surveillance mission. Indonesia relies heavily on air transport and ferries to connect its more than 17,000 islands.